First of all, I am not a medical professional. Heck, my wife will be happy to attest that I am most male-like in my reluctance to even visit a medical professional, even if I am hacking up pieces of lung, or have a cut to the bone ("It's just a flesh wound!").

Noted. In that spirit, I ran across a blog post from Derek Lowe about medicine that was really interesting. There might - just might - be a trigger link between an infection and the onset of Type 2 diabetes; a genetic predisposition to Type 2, kicked into gear as the result of a totally random viral infection. Wow. (Actual paper; original news article)

On a different note, for any chemistry fans out there, this is the blog series that got me reading Derek's stuff in the first place.